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Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by irrelative on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:37PM (#15759809)
One might even say that 100% of 333,410 sites use vulnerable javascript libraries
Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by Fnoord on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:04PM (#15760614)
The information "77% of 433,000" contains the sample size number (433k). "100% of 333,410" does not contain a sample size number. The lack of the sample size number makes the data (and title) less meaningful. I'd go as far saying it makes the data (and title) meaningless.
Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by jjnoakes on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:46PM (#15759887)
Those means different things.

Their wording means "we checked X sites and 77% of them met some criteria", which can be extrapolated to higher values of X (assuming the proper statistical care is taken, etc).

Your wording implies the same, but that's not good because you can't extrapolate to a larger X. You chose the sites after knowing they already met the criteria, and that changes the meaning.

Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by spurcell93 on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:38PM (#15760385)
I get the sense OP was being a bit snide
Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by bigiain on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:41PM (#15762571)
The snide version would be "100% of 433,000". (Which is what I initially parsed it as, and nodded in agreement...)
Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by jazoom on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:57PM (#15760567)
I thought exactly the same thing but wasn't dedicated enough to do the calculation.